Fiddlers Glen B'n'B Innkeepers

Meet the Innkeepers.

Your principal Innkeeper will be Linda Waltner (Keep). She is our expert on stringed instruments and Celtic and Appalachian music. A former orchestra teacher in the public schools, she is an active member of several stage performance groups, Fire In The Kitchen (specializing in Appalachian Celtic music, and seen on PBS's Song of the Mountains), Johnson City Symphony, and previously The Wire Kwire (a group specializing in Appalachian Hammer Dulcimer music). Consider her your resource in finding lessons, sheet or recorded music, unusual instruments, or performance artists in the Southern Appalachian region. She is also our horticulturalist and best cook.

See the article about Linda performing on historic violins at the Stanley Museum in Estes Park, Colorado (click here).

Your backup innkeeper, helper, fixer, webmaster, and official Tinkerer will be Gerald Keep. He is pictured here in his younger days, before the adoption of his trademark rainbow suspenders and overalls. This holder of a Stanford PhD in Physical Chemistry is a part-time consultant in polymer chemistry, flame retardants, and treatments for the textile & nonwovens industry; he also teaches at ETSU and is qualified to operate a shovel wherever Linda points and says to dig. He is currently setting up his workshop on site and hopes to develop demonstrations of historic arts and crafts.

Another character of local interest, our son Nic Keep, is studying business at UT Knoxville, but is likely to be available on weekends for anyone interested in seeing the Cutco Kitchen Knife sales demonstration.

Here is the Feline Staff -- first lover-boy Mocha (Mo, much darker now). Next we have grand-dame Freckles and the sometimes affectionate Phoenix (Phee-ni). We have no recent photos of the elusive Whiskers (long black hair with white bib) but then you probably won't see her anyway.... though she has been known to slip up behind and goose the unwary card player. Finally we have the most recent addition to the family, Miss Fauna (much bigger now).

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